More than a hundred years ago, Empress Dowager Cixi estimated that she would not expect to die, and the United States would one day legally open a "big smoke house" that "brought calamity to the country and the people and weakened soldiers."
Just these two days, the United States In Rhode Island announced a shocking state bill - the state will legally set up a "safe injection center" for drug addicts and addicts, in "human parlance" is to set up an "official drug room".
Since California opened the door to the "legalization of soft drugs" (e.g., marijuana, hallucinogens), only a few states in the United States are still firmly anti-drug.
But even so, such as heroin and other "hard drugs", in the United States except For Oregon and New York, any weight holding is still illegal, and drug users self-injecting such hard drugs is undoubtedly a "high-risk" behavior.
So in order to make drug users "safe to inject drugs", The State Council of State lawmakers in Rhode Island approved a two-year pilot program of "Safe Injection Centers" starting in March next year.
Although Rhode Island has opened an "official drug room", the state still does not allow citizens to possess hard drugs in their jurisdiction, let alone provide heroin and other items in the "official drug room".
However, drug addicts can carry "hard drugs" to safe injection centers and hand them over to professionals for injection.
In France and Canada, where "official drug rooms" have been set up for many years, the two countries have adopted the principle of "anonymity", and they will not ask you who you are, nor will they care where your drugs come from, let alone let you register and force you to quit drugs.
The "official drug room" is also equipped with a service to test the potentially fatal dose of fentanyl , a type of drug that is also the cause of many addicts in the United States.
And also intimately for addicts, drug addicts to additional reserves of anti-drug agents, to prevent excessive dose injection.
To reduce resistance to the establishment of the Safe Injection Center, the state legislator who proposed the bill also stressed: "My son of the nemesis party died of a drug overdose during the epidemic." This prompted me to want to set up safe injection centers to stop this kind of tragedy from continuing. ”
"It's humanitarian to set up a safe drug injection centre and provide them with the support resources they need, rather than having them die alone at home or in a car."
However, despite the cheers of the lawmakers, the establishment of the first "official drug room" in The United States in The establishment of the first "official drug room" in The Island of Korod still made the Americans furious!
"I seem to have seen where some of Biden's funding for 'Rebuild America for a Better' is going."
"An infrastructure for addicts?"
"This pilot program is going to go well, so Rhode Island will slide into the abyss in the future like portland, Chicago, New York, San Francisco, Detroit, New Orleans, Los Angeles, Austin, Houston... The war on drugs is the most important war that needs to be won, which is real terrorism, and all this is being legitimized and accepted. ”
"The next step... Safe area for thieves. (The American is not clear, in California and New York, the amount of theft involved in the theft is less than 950 or 1000 US dollars, do not need to be responsible, California is not at all out of the police, New York is immediately arrested and released, these two states are actually already "thieves safe zone", Ah Qiu Hao than he understands it...) ）
"In Canada, all these bad things we shouldn't have done, the government has made it easier to do!" A diabetic who has to pay cash for a syringe. And these drug addicts in safe places have been getting syringes for free for many years! ”
"Let them be on top and be homeless!" That's the Democratic way! ”
After this news spread to the Chinese Internet, the melon-eating masses exclaimed, "Hey, the big smoke house of the Eight Classics of the United States is really called an authentic!" ”
Drug addicts spend a lot of money on drugs, coupled with the resistance of mainstream American society to addicts, resulting in a considerable number of addicts losing their jobs and going bankrupt and becoming homeless.
The so-called supremacy refers to the fact that in recent years, the Democratic Party has focused on opening the door to "drug legalization", attracting drug addicts and voting for the Democratic Party. It is precisely because of the Democrats' ingraination with addicts that Americans in mainstream society have resisted this behavior in Rhode Island.
The concerns of mainstream American society are not without reason.
In the summer, a video on YouTube about the Kensington robbery in Philadelphia that had become a "walking dead drug street" detonated the internet Chinese.
In September, the news that New York's Eighth Avenue and Ninth Avenue had become "drug dens" shocked the United States even more - in the bustling Manhattan, there were homeless people injecting drugs, trading with drug dealers, and needle feces were everywhere.
Even Washington Square Park, a well-known wealthy middle-class area, has become a "drug trade plaza."
Although the Rhode Island legislator gave the reason for setting up the "official drug room" of the Safe Injection Center, there are also "drug garbage" that can be seen everywhere in the streets in new York and other cities, making the city's appearance obstruct the view.
At the same time, a large number of people in the United States do die every year due to excessive drug use and arborvitae - in 2017, 42,000 people in the United States died from overdose of arbor and drug inhalation.
But more, in fact, it is still inseparable from political factors.
With biden and Democrat support declining as midterm elections approach, Rhode Island Democrats need to consider not only the election of state officials, but also the election of members of both houses of Congress.
And Rhode Island, as the smallest state in the United States, two senators have no choice for the Democratic Party, and the two current Rhode Island senators, although they are both Democrats, are not young, one is over seventy years old, and one is in his sixties.
Whether these two continue to focus on re-election or pave the way for a successor, they must take into account the increasing contradiction between radicals and moderates in the Democratic Party today, and "embracing addicts" can not only effectively urge votes, but also avoid exacerbating the radical and moderate battle in the state on political issues - the addict group accounts for about 10% of the total population of the United States, and the addicts are also a group with high voting enthusiasm.
All in all, it's a good "safe injection center" or a bad "official drug room, a legal big smoke house." Although the Rhode Island State Assembly is under the banner of humanitarianism and life-saving, it is actually around the vote rush.
This is evident from the timeline of the Safe Injection Center Pilot Program – rules for the Safe Injection Center are in place by January 2022, the location is officially established in March, and November 8 is the voting day for the U.S. midterm elections.
Finally, it is worth mentioning that the first to start this was Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, but due to the opposition of the federal judge for the penn district appointed by Trump, it did not make the trip.
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